The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

by Claude Rawson (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $136.87

  This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $30.42

  This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The essays, written by leading experts, are personal responses, written in clear, vivid language, free of academic jargon, and aim to inform, arouse interest, and deepen understanding.